…4/20-10: the wizards of odds

51º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A…GAQ; some Belen city workers may get pink slips; Rio Rancho will add Red Light Cameras; yesterday I got a reverse shower, when the sprinkler system turned on at The Beach while I was walking in the complex; NM NATL Guard returning from Iraq will be honored in Rio Rancho; NM MVD created social security numbers; my NYC friends will add movies to their website; NM is in a ‘nuclear alley’?; Brad made Red Wine Carnivore Chili; two men stabbed at Farmington office party; four year old ABQ was shot & killed; NM inmate escaped from jail;

Rule: never look at anyone’s papers on their desks; could not view YT at work, instead, went to my AOL ‘in box’; one of my E-mails came from NM!; a 2% UNM discount on DELL computers; PICU has adopted my ‘billed to’ technique;

W Coast rains; wet in JAX, ATL, Omaha, Seattle, San Fran, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Orlando & Los Angeles; frost & freeze warnings for MI & NY; a slow spring storm season; dry in the SE US, wet in TX; bad weather along parts of I-10 & I-20; temps from the 50s to the 90s;

wind farms for Cape Cod?; APPLE I-Phone prototype left at a CA bar; most adults think teens text too much; OR man will sell advertising space on his funeral urn; most Americans oppose legalizing marijuana; the DOW went up; Obama will honor the 29 people who died in a WV mine accident; most librarians admit to having sex among the bookshelves; the ‘shadow market’; does the US need financial regulatory reforms; man shoots & kills one person, injuring others at a TN HOSP, then he turned the gun on himself; quadruplets will attend the same college; the ‘Big One’ is overdue in CA; Supreme Court says ‘animal cruelty’ acts can be filmed;

5.0 quake in Australia gold mining region; airlines are losing $20 million per day when their planes cannot fly; there is no criteria to determine the ash cloud’s “danger zone” volcano keeps erupting, and many economies are being affected; no concrete data to determine safety area; ‘limited’ flights being attempted; the 30K foot high Jet Stream keeps pushing the plume; another cloud appearing at 10K feet; England’s airspace remains closed, France & Swiss airports reopen, as well as small airfields around the continent; some flights may resume between Asia & S Europe; there us a second volcano near the first, they usually erupt at the same time; 75% of Europe’s airspace is in the clear; the Discovery did land today; there is $600 trillion in derivatives floating in the world; woman suffers from ‘foreign accent syndrome’, caused by a stroke;